Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finnmark independence referendum, 2018


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:03, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Finnmark independence referendum, 2018

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The referendum will not address the question of state sovereignty, which has not been raised by a political body either. The referendum is about whether or not to uphold county status vs. a merger. Several of the claims are unsupported, such as that about Sami secessionism. Geschichte (talk) 21:40, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:53, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Norway-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:53, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per nominator. The referendum appears to be about the merger with Troms. Number   5  7  08:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - per nom, even the second source is about the actual referendum, which is the merger with Troms. Also NPOV etc etc issues Nosebagbear (talk) 14:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't claim a lot of personal knowledge of Norwegian politics, but a Google News search confirms that the nominator is correct: this is not an "independence" referendum, but merely a referendum on whether to maintain Finnmark's existing county status or merge it with another neighbouring county. Either way, nobody's leaving Norway or changing their sovereignty status, because sovereignty is a concept that attaches to nationhood, not countyhood — but much of this article falsely claims that Finnmark will become independent of Norway if the referendum passes, which is absolutely not what's happening. No prejudice against creation of a new, neutral and accurate article about the vote, if desired, but this is an ideologically loaded and wrongheaded mess that badly misrepresents its subject — so even if an article is warranted, the blow it up and start over principle would pertain. Bearcat (talk) 15:58, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


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